Posted on 05/02/2021 7:52:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’d love to have been a trucker, if I had been younger. Throw on some podcasts and hit the open road.
Although, methinks this guy is just making excuses to justify the eventuality of AI in trucking.
Just as the tech industry did to justify HR1’s.
I thought about it as a kid, too, as my grandad was one.
I would think getting regular exercise and a good diet would be very important. I don’t know how you’d get that if you spend your days on the road as a long-haul driver.
This is a manifestation of inflation. We don’t see it happening at first in a broad rising of all prices. It happens piecemeal until it really gets ramped up. We are headed for real hyperinflation and the Democrats keep adding gasoline to the fire. Right now the only hope we have of this Republic squeezing out another decade of existence is the Arizona audit. I believed it will be stopped, perhaps by the USSC as it becomes apparent that the totals are so skewed ̃& screwed that the whole election was a fraud.
I just got an email the other day from my state’s DMV encouraging me to be a truck driver. god only knows why they’d think that *I* wanted to drive a truck. maybe they sent it to everyone who has a license.
“I’d love to have been a trucker, if I had been younger.”
If? You were once younger!
I know of one cabbie who trained for the marathon by making a point of jogging when his car was parked in between calls. You have to make that kind of commitment.
The fortunate thing is that exercise technology has improved that, for somebody sufficiently committed, they can buy rubber exercise bands and keep one’s strength up.
You can fit a whole fitness regiment in a small dufflebag these days.
One word. Blacks. oung one’s. get them out of the hood. Drug testing will keep them straight. So will, seeing the rest of the country.
Semi related, The other day I saw a sign at a KFC offering $15/hr. and $500 signing bonus. They are hurting for workers.
Been trying to tell folks that...
I think that I would have loved life as a trucker. I’m basically a loner and I love driving the open road listening to music, podcasts, and books on tape. Trouble is, I don’t think I could ever be a good enough big rig driver. The way those guys and gals pull into and back into those tiny spaces fills me with awe. Besides, trucking is hard on family life.
The link is about Owner/Operators. They pay for their own fuel, tires, lumpers,state road taxes, 10k maintenance, insurance and Bear Fees.
Not much left of that $80k per year.
“is that drivers are looking at the fact that they can make $70,000 “and stay home a little more.”
Ya, instead of once every 5 weeks at home, you’ll get to be home once every 4 and a half weeks.
AND..you just have to take out that load from the west coast and get it to the east coast two days before Christmas eve.
I can find bacon for $1.00/pound anywhere. So there must be a bacon shortage.
“I’d love to have been a trucker, if I had been younger. Throw on some podcasts and hit the open road.”
Well, how old is too old to be a truck driver? It’s not rocket surgery.
I had the class “A” cdl since I drove my logging trucks that I owned for my business. I hauled up to 164,000 pounds gross-Michigan doubles.
When i quit and came to AZ I had to go for my AZ drivers license. They ask if I wanted to keep that CDL and I said in no way in hell. They ran it through the shredder.
I would in no way drive big rig anymore with the clowns out on the road now. Case in point..just watch the video of the crash on I 35 in TX during that Ice storm.
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You generally won’t be hired if you’re over 60, which I’m not. However, they won’t hire a 50 year old with no experience.
Secondly, it’s not so much driving that is difficult, but the hours. You might drive for ten hours and then have to wait a couple of hours at the loading dock before you are unloaded, so you have a lot of 2 hour periods of naps and that’s pretty much how you have to sleep through the years.
Not many old people can handle mini-naps as a sleep schedule.
It looks to me like the future for trucking will be:
Driver drives from one terminal to the next. Drops his trailer at that terminal, hooks to another trailer and pulls it back to the original terminal. Driver in that town hooks to the original trailer and takes it to the next terminal.
That way he is home every night. UPS works that way and I think Southeastern does.
I see quite a few container trucks at a truck stop I visit, same trucks every morning at exactly the same time.
Obviously that will not be the case for loads that are destined for cities far away from the ports, but still a relay system would be a way to keep drivers.
Of course riggers, specialty truck services will never be able to operate that way and will be paid big bucks for doing their specialty.
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